i miss the lightning you guys get on the praries - we rarely get it here - where i grew up we would get lots if lightning and odd little rain storms that would appear and disappear in 5 minutes - i can remember standing at one of the block and it would be sunny and you could literally walk down the block and see a line where it was raining

plus all those storms where there was just lightning and thunder and no rain

i miss the lightning you guys get on the praries - we rarely get it here - where i grew up we would get lots if lightning and odd little rain storms that would appear and disappear in 5 minutes - i can remember standing at one of the block and it would be sunny and you could literally walk down the block and see a line where it was raining

plus all those storms where there was just lightning and thunder and no rain

True. Good lightning storms make rain almost bearable. I miss the really crazy violent storms Manitoba gets; Calgary has thundershowers (and thunderflurries, which is just an awesome word) but they're nowhere near as intense.

About 5 years ago i saw that for the first time ever in Vancouver, it was the strangest day of weather I have ever experienced.

It was in December I think, Got up early morning, was sunny and 14, then by noon it had clouded over and was about 8, come 3pm it was only about 2, and we had wind gusts over 100km (I remember this because I was in Surrey stuck on the skytrain, they had to close the Expo line because there were tree branches and a couple satellite dishes blown onto the track), then around 4 the wind calmed down but it hailed shortly, then finally at 5pm it was -1, it started snowing and there was lighting.

I will never forget that day, it was like living a years worth of weather in one day.

Anyways, handing out candy now, is a nice mild 10 degree evening, no rain so far, so still nice and dry. looks like Kamloops may have the best Halloween this year in Canada, was sunny and 15 there today and they are having a mild evening now.

Got up early morning, was sunny and 14, then by noon it had clouded over and was about 8, come 3pm it was only about 2, and we had wind gusts over 100km (I remember this because I was in Surrey stuck on the skytrain, they had to close the Expo line because there were tree branches and a couple satellite dishes blown onto the track), then around 4 the wind calmed down but it hailed shortly, then finally at 5pm it was -1, it started snowing and there was lighting.

I will never forget that day, it was like living a years worth of weather in one day.

Yeah, in Calgary with call that "weather in any month with an R in the name".

Seriously, stop trolling and posting BS as if it were a fact. We do get thunderstorms on a lot of days, but that doesn't mean it rains all the time. Like I said, aside from the foothills, the prairies have one of the best summers in the country, it's generally warm and sunny.

yeah! and Vancouver is a semi-humid climate because of a lack of aridity.

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Calgary is still sitting at 15, about a bazillion degrees above normal. "Pretty good" is the understatement of the year. Bummer about the ski season (2 hills planned on opening this week, the third next) but I'll take this in exchange!

__________________There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. -Donald RumsfeldDidn't you notice on the plane when you started talking, eventually I started reading the vomit bag?